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JUDGE PHYLLIS RANDOLPH FRYE

Associate Municipal Judge, City of Houston, Texas 2010 - Present
UHLC Class of ‘81

Judge Phyllis Randolph Frye is an Eagle Scout, a former member of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, a veteran (First Lieutenant, U. S. Army Regular), an engineer (Texas A&M: B.S. Civil Engineering and M.S. Mechanical Engineering), an attorney (while in private practice did mostly criminal defense law and pioneered in transgender law), a father, a grandmother and a legal, lesbian wife to Trish for over 47 years. She is also the first, OUT, transgender judge in the nation. She was featured in 2015 on the front page, above the fold, of a Sunday Edition of the New York Times (google: New York Times: Phyllis Frye). Judge Frye’s biography HER HONOR (authors Michael G. Long and Shea Tuttle) is in final edits and hopefully will be published before the end of 2020. She is known as being the “grandmother” of the national, transgender legal and political movement.